"Swallow may have let his lobbying license lapse after joining the Utah Attorney General’s office in 2009, but in early 2011 he [continued] to lobby State Senator Curt Bramble (Republican, Provo) to sponsor a bill proposed by the Utah company TEEMS, LLC, which was funded by Swallow’s former lobby client, George Evan Bybee":

In the ongoing media frenzy, there are several new stories reporting on the procedural nuts and bolts:

It wasn’t enough for jailed businessman Marc Sessions Jenson to get Utah attorney general prosecutors off his case Monday in exchange for the acting Utah County attorney, who claims he has never spoken to, nor had any dealings with, embattled Attorney General John Swallow or his predecessor. Jenson’s lawyers also want the attorney general’s investigator dropped, a move that would further delay the 2-year-old case from going to trial and force newly appointed prosecutor Tim Taylor to start from scratch:

Contemplating the estimated $3 million. price tag for the pending House investigation, "Swallow, speaking Tuesday on KSL’s Doug Wright Show, said he is disappointed at the cost and bewildered how he found himself in the current situation":

2 comments:

Carol
said...

I think people are starting to say, "Oh, Yeah. Now that I think about it, there is this other thing he did." Instead of the good-old-boy attitude of looking the other way or thinking "I do that, too, so it must not be bad," people are suddenly seeing the no-clothes version of one Utah public servant after another.